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aaronpk_tv
Friday, December 16, 2022
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So now @elonmusk has reinstated the accounts of white nationalists, and insurrectionists and Nazis, but is suspending the accounts of prominent journalists without warning or explanation? Absolutely no company should be advertising on this platform.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/media/twitter-musk-journalists-hnk-intl/index.html -
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If only it were that simple http://tantek.com/2011/url-diagram.html
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Let's see if I get banned for linking to my own website, which you can also follow from Mastodon.
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Nelson Minar
https://tech.lgbt/@nelson
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Dec 16
@aaronpk I don't think Mastodon is going to ban you for posting to Mastodon. (Are you auto-copying tweets? I gave up doing that, the social contexts are too different.)
The contexts haven't been too different for me up until recently, so I might have to rethink that. Right now I post everything on my website first, and my website sends it out via ActivityPub as well as to Twitter. It isn't really an "auto-copying" thing as much as my website is just the central source of truth.
I do always have the option of *not* sending a post to Twitter, but I haven't previously considered ActivityPub a separate "destination" as such. -
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Hendrik Mans 🐝
https://norden.social/@hmans
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Dec 16
I've started reading up on #ActivityPub. So far I had been assuming that the "@user@host" scheme was baked into the protocol, but apparently it isn't, and it's perfectly capable of integrating user-less domains into the Fediverse.
Have I misread it? (I admit I only did surface level reading so far.)
If I haven't, wouldn't this mean that instances could (theoretically) also just act as hosting providers for #IndieWeb style domain-as-identity accounts?
You're not wrong. The problem is the ActivityPub spec by itself doesn't give you enough to implement a working system, and Mastodon filled in the rest with decisions they made on their own.
So what actually exists is mostly a Mastodon-specific protocol built on the ActivityPub framework. -
Hendrik Mans 🐝
https://norden.social/@hmans
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Dec 16
@aaronpk That sounds bad :( If a site implements the spec version of ActivityPub, what are its chances of being feasibly well integrated into the Mastodon part of the Fediverse?
Extremely low, basically zero. You pretty much have to read Mastodon's docs and do interop testing with Mastodon to have any expectation of it working.
The inverse is true too. There's also a lot in ActivityPub that you *don't* need to do to at all to interop with Mastodon and others. -
Testing the ability to post to my website without sending every post out to my Mastodon followers. If you can see this post, you're either following my website directly, or I broke something.
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Aaron Parecki
https://aaronparecki.com/
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Dec 16
Testing the ability to post to my website without sending every post out to my Mastodon followers. If you can see this post, you're either following my website directly, or I broke something.
oh, or you're seeing this on Micro.blog... hmm should I treat that as a separate syndication target for my posts too? -
I forgot about micro.blog! It counts the same as my website feed right now.
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devilgate
https://micro.blog/devilgate
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Dec 16
@aaronpk I’m swing it on the Micro.blog timeline, if that’s any help.
oops yeah I forgot about micro.blog! It counts the same as my website feed right now. -
Sobral
https://mastodon.social/@sobral
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Dec 17
@aaronpk , is this a "real" Mastodon instance just for you or a custom implementation?
It's ActivityPub built into my own website -
There are some links in the lower half of that page actually!
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Vittorio
https://twitter.com/vibronet
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Dec 17
If you can’t easily come up with an example, be open to the possibility that what you are thinking of… is not a thing.
This feels like a subtweet 🙃
